Thanks for filling me in!  Is there any documentation on the C++ REST API?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Robbie Gemmell <robbie.gemm...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 23 January 2014 22:25, Shearer, Davin <dshea...@novetta.com> wrote:
>
> > Ah, OK, I thought they'd both use the same REST API as documented here
> >
> >
> http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-0.24/java-broker/book/Java-Broker-Configuring-And-Managing-HTTP-Management.html
> > .
> >
>
> Alas no, as per the URL those are the docs for the Java broker HTTP
> management plugin.
>
>
> > To me the language that the broker is written in is an implementation
> > detail.
>
>
> The brokers came into existence separately and have evolved differently
> over time. While effort is often made (from Gordon and Rob in particular)
> to ensure they support similar features in similar ways where possible,
> they ultimately do differ significantly and probably most visibly so around
> configuration and management.
>
>
> > Would it not make sense to layer the same REST API over both the
> > C++ and Java brokers? Why should it be different?
> >
>
> Frasers QMF2 tools can work against either to an extent (it was originally
> developed against the C++ broker and then a QMF2 plugin added to allow
> operation against the Java broker), but the brokers are different and so
> some stuff just is different. As one small example: one of your URLs had a
> virtualhost name in it, but the C++ broker doesnt use named/multiple
> virtualhosts and thus that part just doesnt map particularly nicely between
> the two.
>
> I guess the main reason the two REST APis in question are different though
> is because the Java brokers plugin was developed to be an HTTP interface
> more directly exposing its configuration model (because almost everything
> is now configurable via it), whereas the QMF REST API was developed as a
> way of offering up the QMF functionality used by the C++ broker for its
> management. The two things were basically developed by different people at
> different times for somewhat different purposes.
>
> Robbie
>



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